A Philips tape in a red white Philips box on a Philips spool of 12,7 cm, speed 9,5 cm/sec recorded by the protestant missionary Henk Woldendorp probably around 1960. On the tape are several languages Dutch, Bahasa, and the local languages. A documentary with comments by Henk Woldendorp himself. It tells about one of the duty journeys of civil servants, the vicar and medical personnel through the Tamrau mountains, what happened on the way with him and the others who participated like the medical doctor Schubert, the landscape and includes fragments of songs and dances, animal sounds, the sounds of the environment and church services. The story starts at side B and continues on side A. The end of side A, the last three minutes has recordings from the Radja Ampat islands.
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.

Side A is 32’50 and Side B is 32’54

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